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by patio11 9y ago
What happens in this scenario? N=1 anecdote from a traditionally managed Japanese company. If you (a twenty-something Japanese man) happen to say お先に失礼します。(announcing you're leaving) at 6:00 PM in front of the company's CEO duri
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by patio11 9y ago
The news about Captain Crunch gave me pause, too. I'd encourage young folks on HN -- self-employed or otherwise -- to start planning for old age now. Not tomorrow, not after the exit, etc, now. You get absurd amounts of leverage for
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by patio11 9y ago
I largely agree with this comment. Can I highlight a particularly important bit: > you're dealing with suboptimal clients. It is entirely possible that a hypothetical freelancer charging restaurants $50 an hour for Ruby on Rails we
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by patio11 9y ago
By what pathway do you believe it is possible to start a day with money in Vanguard, end the day with money in Bank of America, and hold ~$1 million in Bitcoin for some portion of the day. Wiring a million dollars from Vanguard to BoA is a
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by patio11 9y ago
That's the only way I see the tens of thousands number being accurate. What's your over/under for how many engineers AppAmaGooBookSoft will hire this year? Mine is 50k. I did a back of the envelope calculation for this la
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by patio11 9y ago
I know a variety of folks there, and their experiences range from "cog in machine" to "really couldn't imagine working anywhere else", and there are a lot of machines you can be cogs in that don't pay $300k (as
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by patio11 9y ago
~13 years in: Spend your early career, to the maximum extent possible, in well-run organizations surrounded by supportive, skilled teams, so that you can optimize for skill growth and (secondarily at first, but growing over time) for indivi
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by patio11 9y ago
Depends on whether it is OTC options versus a more bespoke product, but in general, counterparty risk is something which investors have more or less appetite for. If you're engaged with OTC options via the Options Clearinghouse Corpor
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by patio11 9y ago
I mean, run it by a lawyer if you're ever tempted to use this in a commercial fashion, but you'd generally get told by a lawyer "I've got an icky feeling about saying untrue things in a fashion which could possibly be de
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by patio11 9y ago
No. For the benefit of other folks doing capacity planning: expect peak load of ~25 requests per second [+] in the first few minutes after your thing hits the front page and 50k~80k sessions over the course of a day for a typical article-st
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by patio11 9y ago
This depends almost entirely on what you're doing. If the site at issue isn't dynamic, my suggested action is probably "do nothing", because being frontpaged by HN is not going to tax any computer routinely used to serv
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by patio11 9y ago
There was a famous incident in the Gulf War where the US bombed a facility which was described by the US as a chemical weapons factory and by Iraq as a factory which produced powdered milk for infants. This is likely a callback (via snowcl
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by patio11 9y ago
Both of my Rails apps were on 2.3 for this reason for 5+ years, though the new owners might have migrated. When I specced it out for one it would have been 2+ weeks of solid work.
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by patio11 9y ago
Here are 45 properties within a 10 minute walk of Shibuya Station, ranging from ~$600 to ~$1,200 and 1K through 2DK. http://suumo.jp/jj/chintai/ichiran/FR301FC001/?ar=030&bs=040... For folks who don&
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by patio11 9y ago
I assert that you can find an apartment considered appropriate for a middle-class person in Tokyo for approximately $800~$1,200 in virtually any district of the city in under one day of looking. This is not true of Manhattan or San Francis
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by patio11 9y ago
Name, without looking, the cheapest alternative to Github, or Basecamp, or Trello. Do you use any of them? No, you don't. Because you do not make decisions primarily based on price. You may think customers, in aggregate, primarily ma
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by patio11 9y ago
Teaching non-coders to code isn't primarily about getting them to do core engineering work, although I personally love the idea that that could happen over time for ones who wanted it. These classes don't have folks implementing
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by patio11 9y ago
You probably want to read on the difficulties facing the Winklevoss' proposed ETF for Bitcoin. The MVP of your proposed idea is easy; the legal version is hard. If you do the MVP and don't put in an effort to get legal the happy
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by patio11 9y ago
I think the founders of e-gold and LibertyReserve can tell you all about how hard it is for the US to regulate financial services conducted over the Internet using databases and tokens but over the planet by actual people and corporations.
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by patio11 10y ago
This is surprisingly complicated. None of the following is advice, but rather pointers to discuss the surprisingly complicated issues with your professional advisors. You may have nexuses ("sufficient connection to trigger sales tax o
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by patio11 10y ago
It is my anecdotal impression that this is common in some European countries. Japanese leave policies are historically pretty simple: the government says you get X weeks, buuuuut X is an inconvenient number for us, so you probably want to l
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by patio11 10y ago
I will likely end up using this in personal capacity, and would also appreciate if the UX of using Google Authenticator were more similar to this, rather than requiring me to screenscrape my phone with my eyeball and then type information
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by patio11 10y ago
Japan is a big country and there are people with diverse views in it. Overwork is widely recognized to be a societal problem here, in the same fashion that e.g. racism is widely recognized to be a problem in the US. You could certainly fi
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by patio11 10y ago
Once again with "There are no shortages, there is merely a disagreement with reality about how much labor costs." It does not astound me that companies are having difficulty hiring white collar workers for $2k a month with the exp
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by patio11 10y ago
It's a learned behavior, similar to how repeating memes is also a learned behavior. People use it for various purposes (signaling ingroup membership, belittling others, etc) and for no particular purpose at all, just like people often
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by patio11 10y ago
It is useful to know that, in the US, if you have sufficient information to send a payment into an account you also have sufficient information to debit it. Americans are, accordingly, leery about giving out account numbers. Americans ar
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by patio11 10y ago
I walked in rather than making appointments, mostly out of a lack of planning / confidence in my ability to make things happen over the telephone.
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by patio11 10y ago
You would lose that bet. 12 million Americans filed a Schedule D with $5k+ in capital gains in the last year the IRS has stats on. (That's 1 out of every 8 returns.) https://www.irs.gov/uac/soi-tax-stats-individu
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by patio11 10y ago
Well it could be that my accountants just totally lucked out and presented a proposal to someone whose motto is Charge More For Professional Services, but it's mostly "I have a number of factors which make writing my tax return co
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by patio11 10y ago
The NTA (National Tax Authority, cited as the Kokuzeicho in the article) doesn't figure out your taxes for you. Your employer does, as one of the (many!) ways in which they exercise paternalistic control of your life. If you do not ha

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